Dan Padova posted:A bit more searching brought this kid bit to light. One wonders why GG1s were not considered for the electrification extension project to Pittsburgh.
"The Pennsylvania Railroad's class DD2 electric locomotive was a single prototype locomotive never placed into series production.[3] It was intended as an improved and simplified GG1 for use on the planned, but never built, extension of the PRR's electrification west of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.[1] The one locomotive produced was numbered #5800 and used in regular Baltimore tunnel helper service until it was scrapped in September 1962.[
I took a number of photos of 5800 in Baltimore. It was, as the above states, used as a freight helper through B&P tunnel which was just west of the passenger station. As Mr. Padova's earlier photo shows, it looked like a slightly shorter GG1 with no stripes, different lettering placement, grilles,etc.
Between runs it was kept on one of the tracks heading up the Northern Central.
